CVE-2022-21712

Advisory

Twisted 22.1 includes a fix for CVE-2022-21712: In affected versions, twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the 'twisted.web.RedirectAgent' and 'twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent' functions. There are no known workarounds.
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-92x2-jw7w-xvvx

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds. See CVE-2022-21712.


CONFIRM:https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-92x2-jw7w-xvvx: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-92x2-jw7w-xvvx
MISC:https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/af8fe78542a6f2bf2235ccee8158d9c88d31e8e2: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/af8fe78542a6f2bf2235ccee8158d9c88d31e8e2
MISC:https://github.com/twisted/twisted/releases/tag/twisted-22.1.0: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/releases/tag/twisted-22.1.0

Resources

• https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-92x2-jw7w-xvvx
• https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/af8fe78542a6f2bf2235ccee8158d9c88d31e8e2
• https://github.com/twisted/twisted/releases/tag/twisted-22.1.0
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-21712
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/02/msg00021.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GLKHA6WREIVAMBQD7KKWYHPHGGNKMAG6/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7U6KYDTOLPICAVSR34G2WRYLFBD2YW5K/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-02